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Harley MS 2865

Record Id:

040-002048696

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048696

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000087

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2865

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 2r-v: Added prayer to St Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary, in a 16th century hand.

ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, in French.

ff. 10r-12v: 'Obsecro te', beginning imperfectly.

ff. 13r-43r: Hours of the Virgin.

ff. 44r-46r: 'Quicumque vult'.

ff. 46v-49r: Office of trespasses for Monday.

ff. 49v-52v: Office of the Holy Spirit for Tuesday.

ff. 53r-56v: Office of the Holy Sacrament of the altar for Thursday.

ff. 57r-59r: Office of Our Lady.

ff. 59v-69v: Office of the angels.

ff. 69v-72r: Office of St Catherine.

ff. 72v-76v: Office of St Barbara.

ff. 77r-81v: Penitential Psalms.

ff. 82r-85v: Litany.

ff. 86r-103v: Office of the Dead.

ff. 103v-108r: Suffrages to Sts John the Baptist, Peter, James, Christopher, All Saints, Nicholas, Anthony, Gregory the Great (but with the rubric incorrectly stating Peter of Luxembourg), Hubert, Peter of Luxembourg, Theobald, Anthony of Padua, Anne, Mary Magdalene, All Saints.

ff. 108r-111v: Seven verses of St Bernard, beginning 'Illumina oculos meos'.

ff. 111v-112r: Prayer on the wounds of Christ, beginning 'Ave vulnus nostri redemptoris'.

ff. 112r-116v: Prayer in French, beginning 'Vray dieu sancte trinite'.

ff. 116v-117v: Prayer in French, beginning 'Dame saincte marie mere de dieu'.

ff. 117v-119v: Prayer in French, beginning 'O lumiere incomparable'.

ff. 119v-122v: Prayer in French, beginning 'Tres douce vierge pucelle Marie'.

ff. 122v-124r: Prayer in French, beginning 'O toy royne de hault paraige dame du ciel et de la terre'.

ff. 124r-125r: Prayer in French, beginning 'Belle tres doulce vierge Marie'.

f. 125r-v: Prayer in French, beginning 'Doulce vierge plaisant et coye'.

ff. 125v-128r: Prayer in French, beginning 'O royne qui fustes mise et assise'.

ff. 128v-129r: Prayer in French, beginning 'Mon vray dieu je croy et confesse'.

Rubrics in French.

Decoration:

Attributed to the circle of the Master of Jacques de Besançon (see Backhouse 2004).

19 full-page miniatures with large initials in gold on red or blue grounds and full foliate borders including hybrid figures, animals, birds, etc., in colours and gold: the Annunciation (f. 13r); the Visitation (f. 18r); Nativity (f. 23r); Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 25v); Adoration of the Magi (f. 27v); Presentation in the Temple (f. 29v); Coronation of the Virgin (f. 34r); Trinity (f. 43v); funeral service (f. 46v); Pentecost (f. 49v); the Last Supper (f. 53r); the Virgin and Child (f. 57r); rows of angels before the throne of God (f. 59v); St Catherine (f. 69v); St Barbara (f. 72v); King David penitent (f. 77r); the figure of Death spearing a lady (f. 86r); St Christopher carrying the Christ Child (f. 104v); St Gregory the Great (f. 106r). A further full-page miniature is probably missing after f. 9.

14 small miniatures with three-sided foliate borders, in colours and gold, for suffrages: St John the Baptist and St Peter (f. 103v); St James (f. 104r); All Saints (f. 105r); St Nicholas and St Anthony (f. 105v); St Hubert and St Peter of Luxembourg (f. 106v); St Theobald and St Anthony of Padua (f. 107r); St Anne and St Mary Magdalene (f. 107v); All Saints (f. 108r); a chalice (f. 111v). Small initials (1-2 lines) and line fillers in gold on red or blue grounds.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048696

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2865 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2866]/040-002048696

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1475

End Date:

1495

Date Range:

c 1480-c 1490

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 155 x 110 mm (text space: 100 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 130 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end); ff. 1 and 3 are parchment flyleaves.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum. Marbled brown leather; gilt and gauffered edges.

Sewing holes and impressions of pilgrim badges on f. 1.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Paris, France.

Provenance:

Inscription, 16th/17th? century (f. 130v).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '16 die Januarij A.D. 1720/21.' (f. 1r).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2865.

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 17.

Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 15.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)